More on Community Policing.

As American streets get safer, crime in Europe soars.
by Eli Lehrer.

The thesis is:

Local control may be a critical difference. America has local police departments--think Sheriff Andy Griffith and Deputy Barney Fife--while massive regional or national agencies provide almost all of the law enforcement in nearly all of the other industrialized countries. With about 16,500 police agencies--over 2,000 of which employ only one officer--America's policing system might seem disorganized and amateurish at first glance. All of England has only 39 local police departments, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police run most of Canada's police agencies. France and a bevy of other nations have unified national police agencies. But when it comes to learning from mistakes and adapting to new circumstances, small organizations have their advantages.

7:13:37 AM    

Borges describes 'a certain Chinese Encyclopedia,' the Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge, in which it is written that animals are divided into:

1. those that belong to the Emperor,
2. embalmed ones,
3. those that are trained,
4. suckling pigs,
5. mermaids,
6. fabulous ones,
7. stray dogs,
8. those included in the present classification,
9. those that tremble as if they were mad,
10. innumerable ones,
11. those drawn with a very fine camelhair brush,
12. others,
13. those that have just broken a flower vase,
14. those that from a long way off look like flies.

Google knows this apparently.

6:46:21 AM